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ReviewNature reviews. Urology2019

Molecular and histopathology directed therapy for advanced bladder cancer.

Constantine Alifrangis, Ursula McGovern, Alex Freeman, Thomas Powles, Mark Linch

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Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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124citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
32.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

124 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 224 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Spatial multiomics profiling reveals ZFP36-mediated immunometabolic reprogramming in bladder cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. SMK-002 inhibits the growth of bladder cancer cells and increases their sensitivity to OsimertinibThe Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Constantine AlifrangisDepartment of Oncology, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
Ursula McGovernDepartment of Oncology, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
Alex FreemanDepartment of Pathology, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
Thomas PowlesCentre for Experimental Cancer Medicine, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Mark LinchDepartment of Oncology, University College London Hospital, London, UK. m.linch@ucl.ac.uk.
University College Hospital · GBUniversity College London · GBQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous group of tumours with at least 40 histological subgroups. Patients with localized disease can be cured with surgical resection or radiotherapy, but such curative options are limited in the setting of recurrent disease or distant spread, in which case systemic therapy is used to control disease and palliate symptoms. Cytotoxic chemotherapy has been the mainstay of treatment for advanced bladder cancer, but high-quality evidence is lacking to inform the management of rare subgroups that are often excluded from studies. Advances in molecular pathology, the development of targeted therapies and the resurgence of immunotherapy have led to the reclassification of bladder cancer subgroups and rigorous efforts to define predictive biomarkers for cancer therapies. In this Review, we present the current evidence for the management of conventional, variant and divergent urothelial cancer subtypes, as well as non-urothelial bladder cancers, and discuss how the integration of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of bladder cancer could guide future therapies.

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Molecular Targeted TherapyCarcinoma, Transitional CellForecastingHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasm StagingUrinary Bladder Neoplasms

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PMID31289379
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